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The annual summaries provide a yearly overview of Oklahoma climate and weather. Annual data summary tables have been made available, along with state-wide graphics, statistics, storm reports, and a summarization of events. These yearly publications...

March might have entered like a lamb, but it exited like July, smashing temperature records in the process. The March statewide average temperature, as measured by the 120-station Oklahoma Mesonet, was more than 9 degrees above normal at 59.4...

A slide back to true wintry weather, the likes of which had not been seen across Oklahoma since early February 2011, was nt enough to prevent the inevitable. Although the official numbers will not be released by the National Climatic Data Center...

Tornado Strikes at Mesonet Sites The Oklahoma Mesonet has recorded several interesting measurements over the years. Our sensors have taken some damage from bad weather, but never in Mesonet history has a site been taken down or severely damaged due...

A blistering final week and a return to drought transformed June from a mildly hot month into a scorcher, rekindling memories of the brutal 2011 summer. Temperatures routinely reached triple-digits across Oklahoma during the month's final week.

The annual summaries provide a yearly overview of Oklahoma climate and weather. Annual data summary tables have been made available, along with state-wide graphics, statistics, storm reports, and a summarization of events. These yearly publications...

Objectives: 1. Determine the distribution and abundance of the mena crayfish and sympatric species in the Little River, Glover River, upper Mountain Fork, and associated tributaries. 2. Determine tolerance of the mena crayfish and sympatric species...

The Lower Arkansas Watershed Planning Region includes five basins (numbered 44-47 and 82 for reference). The region encompasses 4,657 square miles in eastern Oklahoma, spanning all of Adair and Sequoyah Counties and parts of Delaware, Cherokee,...

Oklahoma became a weather battleground state during January. A large upper-level ridge of high pressure entrenched over the western United States battled a deep trough of low pressure to the east for supremacy over the state’s weather.

Lake Thunderbird was constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation and began operation in 1966. Designated uses of the dam and the impounded water are flood control, municipal water supply, recreation, and fish and wildlife propagation. As a municipal...

Oklahoma's weather during March was so boring only a Mother (Nature) could love it. Dust storms and wildfires livened things up a bit, but there was very little in the way of traditional severe weather.

The annual summaries provide a yearly overview of Oklahoma climate and weather. Annual data summary tables have been made available, along with state-wide graphics, statistics, storm reports, and a summarization of events. These yearly publications...

Factoring Wind Chill You just checked the weather, and its currently 30 degrees F. When you step outside the wind hits your face, and it feels a lot colder than 30 degrees F. You just experienced wind chill. Wind chill is an important factor to...

The Boone Groundwater Basin covers about 3,065 square miles in portions of Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa, Sequoyah, and Wagoner counties in northeastern Oklahoma 1). Although well yields average less than 10 gallons per minute...

A Climatology of Ice Storm Frequency Across the Contiguous United States and its Association with Changes in the Global atmospheric circulation, Cary Kovacik; Drought Update, Luigi Romolo; Summer Season Forecast, Barry keim;